Math

We keep talking about how math will be important through out our lives and this week the topic came up again, as we were studying the Metric System. Knowing that this system is not used a lot in the USA students wondered why we take time to learn it. Besides the fact that it's part of our standards, why do we learn the metric system? I remember as a student asking why don't we use this system more? It is less complicated then the US system of measurement. But the advantages of learning the metric system do not stop there. Here are a few more reasons:

Scientists, mechanics, and the US military use the metric system

Most of the rest of the world uses the metric system

The metric system is used in the US already (5k, 2 liter bottle)

Brain power! Why not? It is good to always be learning and expanding our brains capacity to understand.